Small, Virtual Sysadmin Services?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday January 26, 2006 @12:05PM from the half-of-a-sysadmin dept.

treesim asks: "I work for a tiny research company of five employees, with a growing need for a system administrator. However, our needs are unlikely to ever require a full time person, so I'm wondering if small, offsite sysadmin services exist (something like virtual assistants, since the larger corporate-sized outfits are just too much). On one hand, this seems an obvious niche to be filled by entrepreneurial moonlighters, but there are a ton of questions regarding trust. Nonetheless, we already have good relationships with offsite bookkeeping and payroll services. Am I just being naive, or does anyone have experience with outsourcing small-scale sysadmin tasks?"

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Yep, this is advertising by ThOr101 · 2006-01-26 12:17 · Score: 5, Informative

So you asked for a company, here it is:

HandyNerds.com http://www.handynerds.com/

That's the company I run, and that is the service I provide. Honestly it is hit or miss if you get someone worth their while. Unfortunatly you won't discover this until you are in the thick of it.

If you want more information, let me know. Always happy to help.

--Brett